Alexa. Tool. Coding on the Facebook Platform. / Auxiom / Steven Bao. Del.icio.us. Del.icio.us/help/randombuttons. The Several Habits of Wildly Successful de. Del.icio.us network explorer. Del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Netwo. I recently interviewed del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, who is now with Yahoo after the popular social bookmarking service was acquired last December. Joshua was recently named as top innovator of the year by MIT Technology Review Magazine.
Tagging is one example of an innovation that del.icio.us pioneered (at least in its current form). Joshua told me that "del.icio.us was the first app to showcase tagging" and that now "practically everyone uses tags in the [del.icio.us] system in some form. " But Joshua has bigger plans for del.icio.us - it will essentially turn into a social network, with more focus on people instead of data.
"One of the amazing things about our users is how smart and far-reaching their interests are. This points to a social networking future for del.icio.us, perhaps more so than a content bookmarking one (which it currently is). delicious already has a 'Your network' feature, but that basically just connects users' bookmarks. Joshua's blog. Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet. Mischievous.